“With our job, you often meet people through work. I've had two long-term relationships, from 14 to 18 and 19 to 21. One I met at school and the other I met on a job so who knows where I'll meet the next person.” PeopleKnowsPersonsLongTwoSchoolJobsNextTermMetsLong TermLong Term Relationship Author:Douglas Booth
“Jay [Duplass] and I normally just sit around and people watch, and we talk about things that are happening in our lives, or with people that we've met. That's the soup from which our movies usually come from.” PeopleWatchesOur LivesMetsHappeningsSoup Author:Mark Duplass
“What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in Haiti. As I say, I've tended to find these people - I mean, Saddam, I've never met or interviewed - but these other people to be rather disappointing. Their political goals were mundane. What they had working for them was opportunism, was very often cleverness and was ruthlessness.” PeopleMeanDoePoliticalLyingEvilGoalBehindsMetsSaddamHusseinMundaneDisappointingClevernessHaitiRuthlessnessOpportunism Author:Mark Danner
“I have met so many people who had their life savings wiped out, who lost their homes, who are barely back with their heads above water.This was a disaster for our country, and we can never let that happen again.” PeopleCountryHomeHappensLostWaterMetsDisasterOur CountrySavingSavingsLife Saving Author:Hillary Clinton
“I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.” PeopleTalkingWonderfulMetsLeagueOfficialsNbaLakers Author:Magic Johnson
“I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with being popular and making money, it DOESN'T have to be.” PeopleLooksPathMetsHeyMaking MoneyBeing Popular Author:Chuck Ragan
“I've met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the highlight of my life.” PeopleMetsMeetingsUnbelievableHighlightsAndrew Author:Laura Benanti
“I had this big complex because I didn't go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody. People that I had never met. I was like, "How? I'm home alone reading chapter 12 of a book."” PeopleBookWholeHomeBigsReadingCollegeMetsComplexesErasChaptersLinkedMe Alone Author:Winona Ryder
“I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and would do these portraits of celebrities. Then he would get another well-known person to write a thing. He photographed me when I was 15 or 16, and he got Jason Robards to write the thing because he was sort of my mentor. And Roddy would invite me to these dinner parties that were insane. Like, Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen O'Hara and people that were just crazy. I still can't really believe that I met them.” PeopleWritingBelieveWellsPersonsStillsCertainPartyKnownCrazyMetsLuckyPhotographerDinnerInsaneInvitesMentorPortraitsWell KnownJasonSo LuckyDinner Party Author:Winona Ryder
“I thought, "Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway." It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in there. What all this comes down to is I was just trying to get in touch with myself. And I met some interesting people in New York who weren't in show business. I even got to know my dentist.” PeopleKnowsTryingShowsFoundSoundInterestingNew YorkMetsWowShow BusinessDentistSome Interesting Author:Iggy Pop
“Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...” PeopleMetsJournalistDullLazyUninspired Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.” PeopleYearsHas BeensSchoolMetsGradesMy Best FriendClose FriendsGrades In School Author:Aeriel Miranda
“I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I`ve ever met.” PeopleThinkingGroupsMediaMets Author:Donald Trump
“I actually met Larson [Paine] on Larchmont in Los Angeles. He was eating and he stopped me because I was massaging my larynx. I was doing a show and trying to loosen up my throat. He had sort of this southern vibe about eating alone and talking to people. And it was funny because I had just having eaten with Larry O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin.” PeopleTryingShowsTalkingMetsEatingLos AngelesThroatSouthernLarryPaineEating Alone Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.” PeopleThinkingDifferentEnoughStageMetsMusicianGuitarManagersStringsGuitar Strings Author:Johnny Marr
“I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling.” PeopleFeelsWritingI CanStreetsHavensNew YorkHugeMetsInspiredBillionsHumbling Author:Frankie Cosmos
“There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how to talk to them without being pretentious back.” PeopleKnowsKnow HowMetsStressfulPretentious Author:Frankie Cosmos
“I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to tell their story about the revolution through the eyes of musicians, in fact. The '59 Revolution. And what has happened to them since. It's very much a Cuban story. They haven't fared too well.” PeopleWantWellsLittlesIdeasFactsStoriesEyeNiceHappenedHavensRevolutionMetsMusicianSeventiesCubanThrough The Eyes Author:John Gimlette
“I have met a few people, who are so respected in the fashion industry and all around the world, and are still very humble. People who have it all but act like they only just started, it's beautiful. This is what I want to be.” PeopleWorldWantStillsBeautifulFashionIndustryMetsHumbleAround The WorldFashion Industry Author:Benjamin Clementine
“I loved performing every week, but all of the activities and amazing people we met when we were not filming stick out to me the most.” PeopleWeekMetsActivitySticksPerformingAmazing People Author:Rayvon Owen
“So one of the profound things we found when studying these congregations, the mixed ones, is just how much overlap and interracial ties that develop not only with the people in the congregation, but they start meeting each other's families, and their friends, and they go to each other's neighborhoods if they live in different neighborhoods, and at work they meet people they wouldn't otherwise met, and so it creates a whole new definition of what the group is.” PeopleIfsDifferentWholeFoundStudyGroupsMetsMeetingsProfoundDefinitionsTiesNeighborhoodCongregation Author:Michael Emerson
“I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.” PeoplePlayChangedMetsPicksInstrumentsMusicalAbusivePower Of MusicMusical InstrumentsAmazing PeopleAbusive Relationship Author:Lita Ford
“I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.” PeopleWayGivingHas BeensYoungMetsGive MeRememberedGenerousComing BackSpirited Author:Vashti Bunyan
“When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayWalksMetsChanging The WorldPunkWalks Of Life Author:Steve Diggle
“In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.” PeopleBigsBlackCitiesHavensMetsAuthorityBlack PeopleGhettoInner CityUptight Author:Paul Reubens
“Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.” PeopleDifferentReadyMetsHumbleHorizonTraveled Author:Tariq Ramadan
“People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.” PeopleKnowsPersonsHappensForeverMetsDemandThrownJailArrested Author:Chuck Klosterman
“My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos.” PeopleParentGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingMiddleMaterialsMetsMovedRaisedTexasWowFloridaMonkWeirdo Author:Taraka Larson
“I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come out the way they like, they still power through and even take energy from it.” PeopleIfsWayStillsArtistEnergyProcessMetsGreat ArtGreat Artist Author:George Saunders
“I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - are not that different either. You hope that if you met them that they'd be as nice and well-rounded as they appear.” PeopleIfsWellsDifferentNiceStageMetsAdmireWell RoundedSpringsteen Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I never met David Kelly, but I knew from what he told other people that this was not his view. The BBC were saying that Tony Blair was making up lies so that he could send young men and women to war, maybe to die. I think that if the BBC had done their jobs professionally, they'd have realised that you couldn't justify what they said. And nothing has emerged since to justify that report.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenSaidWarDoneJobsYoungLyingDiesViewsMetsMen And WomenYoung ManReportsJustifyThey SaidRealisedMaking UpBlair Author:Alastair Campbell
“I'm just really not even that huge of a UFC fan. If you go on my Instagram or Twitter, you will notice ... people that I've actually met and hung out with, you know, I'm not like a huge UFC guy.” PeopleIfsKnowsGuyFansHugeGoes OnMetsHungInstagramUfc Author:Jon Jones
“People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.” PeopleChallengesHealingQualityKnownGreaterHealthyMetsIllnessLive LifeConsistentInterpretationDesperation Author:Marianne Williamson
“When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in my mind before, but are instead based on the people I've met in real life.” PeopleKnowsTryingMindWellsRealCharacterMetsNotesReal LifeEnd TimesSpend Time Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“As I traveled around the country, I met hundreds if not thousands of people who want to change the country. And you've got, now, 1,900 Bernie delegates who are now going back to their communities in 50 states.” PeopleIfsWantCountryStatesCommunityMetsTraveledDelegates Author:Jonathan Tasini
“I would say that the people, largely, who I met were Democrats. But really it's what - people want to change the country. They think that the Democratic Party is the vehicle. But let's face it, if the Democratic Party does not respond and Hillary Clinton does then not go forth and implement the things she supports now if she's elected president, the Democratic Party will lose a lot of people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantDoeCountryFacesPresidentLosesPartySupportMetsDemocraticClintonDemocratVehicleDemocratic Party Author:Jonathan Tasini
“We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win something, I'm the only one of my ethnicity to get it, but this time I met all these Latinos, and I was so excited. I'd meet someone and I'd go, [...] "Can you come to San Antonio?" And they'd go, "Oh yeah." [...] And suddenly I had twelve people that said they would come. And I didn't know how it was going to be. And that's how the Macarturos became a reality, where these very generous geniuses come to San Antonio and work together.” PeopleKnowsSaidRealityTogetherWinningKnow HowGeniusMetsOrganizationYeahFoundationExcitedGenerousWorking TogetherTwelveLatinoEthnicityAntonioSan AntonioMacarthur Author:Sandra Cisneros
“You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody was like, "Have you met [Charles] Manson? Have you been to that ranch?" In some way, everybody felt connected, but what was it like for people who really were connected.” PeopleWayStoriesFoundFeltMetsLateHollywoodMurderConnectedManson Author:Karina Longworth
“I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr. King in 1958 at the age of 18. I met Rosa Parks ... But to pick up a fun comic book - some people used to call them "funny books" - to pick this little book up, it sold for 10 cents, 12 pages or 14 pages? 14 pages I digested. And it inspired me. And I said to myself, "If the people of Montgomery can do this, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can make a contribution."” PeopleIfsYearsLittlesSaidI CanBookAgeUsedFunCan DoHeardKingsMetsPagesPicksInspiredComicParksContributionCentsComic BookDrsLutherCan Do SomethingRosaMontgomeryFunny Book Author:John Lewis
“For me, that's where my spiritual practice comes in. It's come from a lot of people that I've met that have influenced me over the years, and it's remembering those people, what they taught me.” PeopleYearsRememberSpiritualPracticeTaughtMetsSpiritual Practice Author:Trevor Hall
“I've met people who were destroyed by Donald Trump.” PeopleTrumpMetsDestroyed Author:Hillary Clinton
“[Kanye West] took me to a fashion meeting in Paris once. I'd never met these people; I was so nervous. It was the beginning of our relationship, and I didn't know anyone in fashion. And he passed out at the table. I'm like, "I'm so sorry, we're jet-lagged." You don't know the number of times I've had to say that. I always flat-out lie that he's jet-lagged, even if we've been home for months.” PeopleIfsKnowsHomeLyingNumbersFashionMonthsMetsTablesMeetingsWestSorryNervousParisFlatsOur RelationshipJetI'm So Sorry Author:Kim Kardashian
“Lee Marvin was there at the same time, and I knew obviously it was his movie [Emperor Of The North], and Ernie Borgnine was playing the other part in the movie.I met Marvin there at wardrobe, and he said, "What are you doing for lunch?" I said, "Nothing." He said, "C'mon with me!" And he took me to the commissary. I walked into the commissary with Lee Marvin at 20th Century Fox, and he introduced me to people. He said, "This's Keith Carradine. We're doin' this movie together." He was so cool. I mean, my God.” PeopleMeanSaidTogetherCenturyMetsLunchFoxes20th CenturyEmperorWardrobeKeithMarvin Author:Keith Carradine
“I have changed the focus of the work of my Commission so that we no longer concern ourselves with trivial details and concentrate on the key issues instead. By doing that, we met a large number of the legitimate demands made by the British people. The Commission really did do everything it could to create the conditions for a positive campaign.” PeopleMadeNumbersIssuesFocusConditionsChangedKeysMetsDemandConcernDetailsBritishCampaignsLarge NumbersI Have Changed Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterKidsMotherIndustryMetsDirectorsDaughterMy FriendsFemaleDecidedAskingFeministProducersThey SaidFemale CharactersMother DaughterKids Movie Author:Geena Davis
“The only time I feel pressured is when some woman's husband comes over and says, "Will you go ask my wife to dance? She's a great dancer and would just love to dance with you."Suddenly there's a crowd of people standing around us and they expect that they're about to see Fred and Ginger. Here the woman and I have just met, and these people think that it's showtime. That is the only time I think it is really embarrassing.” PeopleThinkingFeelsAsksWifeMetsHusbandStandingCrowdsMy WifeDancerEmbarrassingOnly TimePressuredGingerShowtime Author:Gene Kelly
“My 4-year-old is the most kind-hearted person I've ever met in my life. Granted, he's 4, but he doesn't know people wouldn't like him. He doesn't understand that people would hurt him. When I get in these situations, that's what breaks my heart.” PeopleKnowsYearsHeartKindPersonsHurtSituationBreakMy HeartMetsGrantedHeartedBreaking My HeartKind Hearted Author:Andrew Hawkins
“I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.” PeopleYoungStruggleMets Author:Hamza Yusuf
“I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.” PeopleHas BeensInvolvedMetsLuckyWinnerPrize Author:Joan Baez
“At the same time as the UK Vogue one, I did a shoot that took about 40 days of friends and people I admired in Paris, for French Vogue. This is how I met Maria Schneider in June and which began our friendship.” PeopleMetsParisJuneVogue Author:Nan Goldin